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Wild winter storm envelops US, snarling Christmas travel

-- 2022-12-24 19:59:37

A wild winter storm continued to envelop much of the United States on Saturday, bringing blinding blizzards, freezing rain, flooding and life-threatening cold that created mayhem for those traveling f...

Extinction crisis puts 1m species on the brink

REUTERS 2022-12-24 17:53:27

Nature is in crisis, and it's only getting worse. As species vanish at a rate not seen in 10 million years, more than 1 million species are currently on the brink.  Humans are driving this extin...

Afghan women defy Taliban gym ban with secret fitness clubs

Thomson Reuters Foundation 2022-12-24 17:42:17

Hidden in the basement of a private home in the Afghan capital Kabul, gym instructor Laila Ahmad takes a group of women through a clandestine exercise class - the windows are blacked out, there is no...

South Africa marks holidays despite power cuts

-- 2022-12-24 16:50:17

Christmas lights twinkle, holiday music plays and Johannesburg's popular Rosebank mall bustles with shoppers. Then the lights go out. The shops are pitch dark. "Hold on to your wallets," calls out a...

Iran Supreme Court accepts appeals of two protesters sentenced to death

-- 2022-12-24 15:22:12

Iran’s Supreme Court has accepted the appeals of two protesters sentenced to death due to flaws in investigating their cases, the country's judiciary said on Saturday. "The Supreme Court accept...

China angered, Taiwan cheered by new US defence act

-- 2022-12-24 14:20:16

China expressed anger on Saturday at a new US defence authorisation law that boosts military assistance for Taiwan, while Taipei cheered it for helping boost the island's security, reports Reuters. C...

India makes Covid test mandatory for arrivals from some countries

REUTERS 2022-12-24 14:16:51

India has mandated a Covid-19 negative test report for travellers arriving from China, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong and Thailand, the health minister said on Saturday. Passengers from those countrie...

Inflation takes the turkey out of Christmas in Latin America

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-12-24 13:51:55

 With traditional Christmas dinner costing almost twice as much as 2021's festive spread, Maria Magdalena Luna has decided to forgo turkey and the usual glut of gifts fo...

Japan prosecutors to indict suspected Abe assassin: Kyodo

REUTERS 2022-12-24 13:08:09

Japanese prosecutors have decided to indict the man suspected of shooting former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Kyodo news agency and other Japanese media reported on Saturday. The decision foll...

Shanghai asks residents to stay in on Christmas as Covid surges

-- 2022-12-24 12:55:27

Shanghai authorities urged residents to stay at home this weekend, seeking a toned-down Christmas in the nation's most populous city as Covid-19 rages nationwide after tough curbs were lifted. A bran...

UK's Sun apologises for Jeremy Clarkson's Meghan column

REUTERS 2022-12-24 12:52:50

Britain's Sun newspaper on Friday apologised for publishing a column by British television presenter Jeremy Clarkson about Prince Harry's wife Meghan, days after it became the UK press standards regul...

Fire in unregistered Russian home for elderly kills 20

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-12-24 12:24:02

A fire broke out on Friday in an unregistered home for the elderly in the Siberian city of Kemerovo, killing 20 people, Tass news agency quoted emergency services as saying. The agency quoted fire sa...

Al Qaeda releases video it claims is narrated by leader al-Zawahiri who was believed dead: SITE

REUTERS 2022-12-24 12:10:11

Al Qaeda has released a 35-minute recording the group claims was narrated by its leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, who was believed to have been killed in a US raid in August 2022, SITE intelligence group sai...

Massive winter storm brings rolling blackouts, power outages

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-12-24 10:31:32

Tens of millions of Americans endured bone-chilling temperatures, blizzard conditions, power outages and canceled holiday gatherings Friday from a winter storm that forecasters said was nearly unprece...

Congress approves new election rules in Jan 6 response

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-12-24 10:20:59

Congress on Friday gave final passage to legislation changing the arcane law that governs the certification of a presidential contest, the strongest effort yet to avoid a repeat of Donald Trump's viol...

US announces in-person interview waivers for certain visa applicants throughout 2023

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-12-24 10:11:55

The United States has extended the authority of consular officers to waive in-person interviews for certain nonimmigrant visa categories throughout 2023. The Department of State said that it recogniz...

US House approves Ukraine aid including arms

-- 2022-12-24 10:03:21

The US House of Representatives gave final approval on Friday to a $45 billion aid package for Ukraine, as President Volodymyr Zelenskiy warned his citizens that Russia could launch attacks over Chris...

Billionaire Adani to control nearly 65pc of NDTV as founders sell stake

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-12-24 09:50:39

Indian billionaire Gautam Adani will control 64.71 per cent of New Delhi Television Ltd NDTV.NS as the company's founders have decided to sell most of their shares, four months aft...

Russia says talks cannot take place keeping NATO instructors in Ukraine

-- 2022-12-23 20:28:12

A senior Russian diplomat said on Friday that talks on security guarantees for Russia cannot take place while NATO instructors and "mercenaries" remain in Ukraine, and while Western arms supplies to t...

Paris shooting: Three dead and several injured

-- 2022-12-23 20:19:39

A gunman opened fire on a Kurdish cultural centre and nearby Kurdish cafe in central Paris on Friday, killing three people and wounding three others, and prosecutors said they were looking into a poss...

Two people dead after a shooting in Paris

-- 2022-12-23 18:41:55

Two people were killed and four others wounded after a shooting in Paris' 10th arrondissement, the French city's prosecution office said on Friday, confirming media reports. According to Reuters, a 6...

Taliban minister defends closing universities to women

-- 2022-12-23 18:21:20

Afghanistan's Taliban-run administration said on Thursday it had closed universities to women partly due to female students not adhering to its interpretation of the Islamic dress code, in a decision...

Truck carrying Indian soldiers falls into gorge, killing 16

-- 2022-12-23 18:10:40

A truck carrying Indian soldiers skidded down a steep slope into a gorge in India’s remote northeast on Friday, killing at least 16, the Indian Army said in a statement. Four other soldiers wer...

India to make Covid negative report mandatory for passengers from high caseload countries

-- 2022-12-23 17:59:15

India is planning to make a Covid-19 negative test report mandatory for passengers arriving from countries with a high number of cases, the country's health minister said during an interview with broa...

Suicide car bomb kills police officer, wounds others in Pakistan 

-- 2022-12-23 17:21:55

A suicide car bombing at a checkpoint in Pakistan's capital of Islamabad on Friday killed one police officer and injured several others, police and the interior ministry said.  "Our initial info...

Charles 'The Serpent' Sobhraj freed from Nepal prison

-- 2022-12-23 16:02:25

Charles Sobhraj, a convicted killer who police say is responsible for a string of murders in the 1970s and 1980s, was released from a Nepal prison on Friday after nearly two decades behind bars. Sobh...

Notorious French serial killer freed from Nepal prison

-- 2022-12-23 15:56:45

Confessed French serial killer Charles Sobhraj was freed from prison in Nepal on Friday after serving most of his sentence for the murders of American and Canadian backpackers. Sobhraj was driven out...

US population growth inches higher in 2022, driven by immigration

-- 2022-12-23 13:15:37

The population of the United States accelerated in 2022 from its slowest rate on record, driven by net international immigration, as growth began to recover from a slowdown triggered by the Covid-19 p...

Ukraine's parallel war on corruption to unlock door to West

REUTERS 2022-12-23 12:52:42

To an outsider, it may seem an unlikely time for Ukraine to double down on the battle against corruption, as missiles rain down on cities and citizens fight for their lives. Nonetheless, a...

China sanctions two Americans

-- 2022-12-23 12:45:57

China has sanctioned two Americans in retaliation for US sanctions against two Chinese officials over human rights in Tibet earlier this month, the Chinese foreign ministry said on Friday, reports Reu...